Okay, so this has been sitting in my laptop for months now, so I decided to upload it. I'll update this when my muse rears its head, so, updates will be infrequent. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Tsuna's Predicament

It has been six months since the Arcobaleno Representative Battle, and things have been going relatively normal. Those that didn't have much free time before chose to join the clubs they wanted, and the rest went on with their respective life.

Well, all except one.

"Gokudera-kun, will you be having lunch with me?" Tsuna asked him.

"I'm very sorry, Jyuudaime!" exclaimed Hayato, bowing profusely to his boss. "But I have some things to do with the rest of the Extraterrestrial Club. Maybe next time?" he offered.

Tsuna smiled, ignoring the painful twinge in his heart after hearing his right hand man's answer.

"… Alright, then. Have fun." Tsuna said, nodding to Hayato who smiled happily, saluted to his boss, and jogged towards the direction of the Extraterrestrial clubroom. Tsuna turned to Takeshi, "Yamamoto-kun, what about you? Will you have lunch with me?"

"Ahaha… I'm sorry Tsuna." he smiled apologetically while scratching the back of his head. "But I promised my team that I'd eat lunch with them. Next time, okay?"

"…Okay, Yamamoto-kun. Maybe next time." Tsuna conceded, smiling at him.

With that, Takeshi waved his goodbye, and rushed towards his baseball team.

After Takeshi was out of sight, Tsuna let his smile falter and sighed bitterly, heading to the tree behind the school where he spends his lunchtime nowadays.

Next time, next time, that was the only answer he'd gotten these days. Tsuna thought viciously, feeling a momentary wave of anger and frustration came over him. They never had time to spend with him anymore. He stomped towards the tree, plopping down between the roots of the big tree, and opened his bento.

Then his anger faded, replaced by guilt at his thoughts.

Of course, it wasn't really their fault. He understood that they wanted some time alone for their hobbies and likes, since they never did have any back then. Constantly shadowed by danger, all the time they had was used to train themselves to become stronger in order to survive the trials, and protect the people important to them.

Now that things have settled down, they all have their chances to do the things they wanted, and they aren't needed to be by his side at all times. They deserved it. After all, it was because of him that they got tangled in the webs of the Mafia, so it's more like his fault, really. He was the one who dragged them into this, ruining their chances of having a normal life.

Tsuna paused in his eating and chuckled, stopping his train of thoughts. Since when did he sound so angsty? Reborn would've whacked him on the head if he found out about his brooding.

Thinking of Reborn, his thoughts went back into the memory lane.

Reborn, his crazy, cute and lovable (at least according to the girls), Spartan baby tutor with a sadistic streak several miles wide. Well, he's not exactly a baby now. A few weeks after the Representative battle, Verde has developed a super-growth serum and administered them to the rest of the Arcobaleno in baby forms, returning them back to their adult bodies.

He had quite a shock once he found out that the mysterious man who beat his father—quite stylishly, he admit—was actually his tutor. And Reborn and the rest of the Arcobaleno couldn't stop commenting and teasing him about how dense he was.

But right now, Reborn and the others are going on a month-long reconnaissance mission to Spain after they heard a rumor about one of the Estraneo Famiglia bases being there. Mukuro—now on free trial period from the Vindice—tagged along with them while the rest of the Kokuyo gang stayed on Namimori to look after Chrome on Mukuro's orders.

Tsuna couldn't believe that he's saying this, but he wanted all those chaos to happen again. With all the people around him moving on with their lifes, he felt…unneeded, useless, and left behind.

Most importantly, he felt so lonely.

Losing his appetite, Tsuna put his chopsticks down, closed the lid of his bento, and simply sat, staring at the distance. He yawned. He was getting sleepy.

He wanted to be needed again, to have another purpose to strive on. But how?

'If only…' he thought, starting to nod off to sleep under the cool shade of the tree, 'if only my wish could come true…'

As he closed his eyes, Tsuna never realized the faint greenish-white glow that surrounded the Sky Vongola ring on his neck, together with the rest of the Trinisette. He never even opened his eyes as his body dissipated into mid-air, leaving the half eaten bento hidden under the shadow of the tree.

Only three figures felt the fluctuation of the Trinisette, and they are intent to find out what happened.

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